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One of my favourite parts of doing data journalism is the preliminary data exploration. That's when I throw everything I got at Tableau or R or Excel, making box plots, scatter plots, bar charts, and if the mood strikes, treemaps.

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Anton Dubrau, an independent developer with a passion for transportation, created this fantastic visualization of what he calls "walksheds": areas where people are willing to walk to.

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I haven't used Geocommons for months, as I decided to focus on really learning Google Fusion Tables and QGIS. Besides, Geocommons seemed like a poor Fusion Tables clone.